A screenshot from PBS Newshour's interview with Clifton Wharton

Inequality and Opportunity, Through The Eyes of the First Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 14, 2015

Clifton Wharton Jr. has been a pioneer in many fields. He has been chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, president of Michigan State University, and chancellor of the sixty-four-campus State University of New York system. He was also the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company as chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF, and later was appointment as deputy secretary of state during the Clinton administration. In his autobiography, Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer, he recounts his unusual childhood, his historic professional achievements, and his remarkable family.

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